Would that former President George D Bush come out and denounce this growing tide of xenophobic racism that his party is now wallowing in – but nah that ‘would be to much hard work “

Ahem, the grisly math says 2 trillon divided by a quarter million is 8 million a pop. That’s not cheap at all, Marty.

Don’t forget all the Depleted Uranium we are leaving behind for free.
That will fuck ‘em up for generations. Talk about getting a bang for your buck.

Other
Individuals
Liberty

Perpetuate the greatest liberty extractor of all. Energy whores!

To the slave owner slave where uncompensated labor. Today all Americans are effectively slaves as we all pay for poor value and over priced potential energy, a real deal for the purveyors of energy as the uncompensated slaves where a great deal for the property owning slave
owners.

Leveraged economic servitude is not liberty. It is systemic rape of a
nation by the modern day slave-owner, corporate slime in legalize crime akin the institution of slavery. US have become that which we severed our ties from. A corrupt empire personified in BP where all life is cheap in the lust for endless and classless profit!

Access to oil reserves! Wake up America you have been sodomized and fucked hard. Real hard by corporate interests hellbent on your servitude to them as slave owners fought a bloody civil war to protect the institution of slavery and their profit? Access to oil reserves and the fucking of America! Nice job “Executive Oil” Cheap life and cheap oil???? WTF!

Not even a fixed price per barrel of oil from Iraq?????????

Great return on investment for America?? Meanwhile BP and its service contracts are back in Iraq?

Real value for America? This is beyond fucking stupid. It is the “treasonous actions ” of corpo-aristocrats which rapes Americans on a daily basis!

Right you are, corrected, too many zeroes to deal with on a calculator.

But the ability of george bush to torture Muslims at will, priceless.

He’s as insane as Nero was, if not worse.

Just a few clicks with an abacus.

2E12/.25E6=(2X4)E(12-6)=8E6. Simple mental prestidigitation. And it’s never ever too early to whip out your slipstick. (If somebody wants to smite me with the stinging rod of moderation, please look it up, first).

Good morning, pups. It’s Brooks, Cohen and Herbert today. Bobo is considering “The Day After Tomorrow.” He says Republicans are riding a wave of revulsion about what is happening in Washington, but he has a question: Once things settle down, what about the conservative future? Mr. Cohen, writing from Tel Aviv, sends us “Peace Talks? What’s On TV?” in which he says Israelis have better things to do than dream of peace. Mr. Herbert looks at “A Recovery’s Long Odds” and says ordinary American families no longer have the purchasing power to build a strong recovery and keep it going.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and I’ve got a variety of bagels with cream cheese. I’m not only running late this morning, but I’m feeling slow and dull into the bargain. Maybe a second cup of tea will get my motor started… Have a great day.

Some of us are actually antique enough to have used those things!

Antique? Please! I much prefer “Classic”, thank you!

Good morning all.

I saw what’s now that old, venerable classic “Hearts & Minds” when I was 14. Their scene on how much Asians value their own lives was a classic. We get an extended scene on a mother and her young son tearfully, hysterically mourning their lost father/husband (How did he die? Who know, who cares) followed by a US white, male Army officer talking about how Asians don’t value their lives the way that we Westerners do. By that point, I knew all about World Wars I & II, with men running shoulder to shoulder at machine guns and getting cut down in droves.

Good morning, Marion. Bobo’s been dining on the wrong mushrooms, it seems. A spot of mustard, a bit of undigested beef, perhaps? Possibly even he’s gotten disgusted with defending the batsh*t insane.

Lest Bobo have any doubt, he has been irretrievably soiled, too. Any credibility he once had is gone forever. The “Day After Tomorrow” will be a disaster, and Brooks is and will henceforth always be just another zombie. All Republicans vote the same, no matter what words come from their mouths. There is no reset button.

Good morning, eCAHN. Sorry to see last night’s kerfluffle.

Speaking of bees, have you seen this?

Thanks. Very nice.

Kerfluffle? Did I miss a kerfluffle?
And, Stonypillow, I love that “stinging rod of moderation”. Very cute.

I do, too. It’s only the “smiting” part that hurts.

Actually, I just filed the serial numbers off. Maybe this is familiar:

“Then the Messenger of Mordor laughed no more. His face was twisted with amazement and anger to the likeness of some wild beast that, as it crouches on its prey, is smitten on the muzzle with a stinging rod. Rage filled him and his mouth slavered, and shapeless sounds of fury came strangling from his throat. But he looked at the fell faces of the Captains and their deadly eyes, and fear overcame his wrath. He gave a great cry, and turned, leaped upon his steed, and with his company galloped madly back to Cirith Gorgor.”

I have two small bruises from yesterday. One modded one and a sarcastic sting from the boss. Oh, well. I’ll live.

Sorry for your troubles. I’m fortunate enough to work this morning in the company of several batsh*t insane engineers who make their god Rushbo sound like the mellifluous voice of pure, gentle reason. As a minority of one, and needing my job as much as they need someone who actually works for a living, I must hold my tongue. I will live; I shall not choke on it.

Off to the Moria, where the “mithril” lies ;-)

Hey! Be Good.

Tell you what — I won’t get caught.

Smarter and better.

He is the same one reputed to torture small animals as a kid….Not a good sign even then.

Hey….You got “modded”? O my…and Who is the boss? Hope today is better, as in “great”. ;)

The U.S. government murders people and steals their oil when it would be much cheaper to buy the fucking oil. The American Empire is evil, stupid and powerful. The world will rejoice when the empire is finally felled by it own corruption.

Thanks for that. Interesting that is exactly the documentary that popped into my head, too, after reading sh*thead Peretz’s condescening quote. Same old, diff’rent day. The slime doesn’t oooze far from the source.

Disgusting.

The U.S. government murders people and steals their oil when it would be much cheaper to buy the fucking oil.

And there you have the money quote: ding, ding, ding!

I used to be quite the peacenik and was against war bc of the killing, rape of the environment, etc. I still mostly have those attitudes, but anymore I’m more ticked off because of my fiscal conservatism. These wars are absolutely a giant sucking sound of our tax dollars going to waste with purported “conservative voters” clapping and cheering all the way. WTF? And they will not be convinced otherwise that this is such a monumental WASTE of money.

Bruce Fein spoke very clearly about this very thing at last Saturday’s book salon (and he’s a Republican):

http://fdlbooksalon.com/2010/09/11/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-bruce-fein-american-empire/

I encourage everyone to read that book salon (and possibly also buy his book). Very interesting.

I read this article and Blue Texan’s piece, “Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow on the Koch Brothers’ Funding of the Tea Party,” that exposes the 10th richest men in the country as the cheapest, laziest grifters EVAH. It occurs to me that there are two generations of “wealthy.” The younger generation acts like Trust fund babies used to a permanent cash flow no matter what while their older generation reminds me of a first-hand story about some folks who cheated others and chintzed their way to wealth to the point that the shack of a house in which they miserably existed was so neglected the wallpaper was rotting and peeling off the bathroom wall. The cheapsters had millions of dollars yet they forced even their own family members to live in squalor for the sake of their love of money when they could have provided a decent, healthy serviceable shelter for all at just a little expense (as the saying goes, “penny wise but pound foolish”).

So, be advised. You are witnessing the twisted, batsh#t crazy mentations of the deficit hawks/Catfood Commissars plus the spendthrift-if-it’s-not-my-money attitude of their political (if not actual) progeny. I think we’d be no less batsh#t crazy to put up with any of this for one New York moment.